Text | Passion Fruit
Editor | Passion Fruit
On December 26, 2019, according to Japanese media reports, Wei Wei, a Chinese man who killed a family of four in Fukuoka 16 years ago, was hanged in Fukuoka Prison.
This news was announced by Japan's Minister of Justice Masako Mori at a temporary press conference held by the Ministry of Justice.
This execution of the death penalty is also the first foreigner to be sentenced to death since Masako Mori was appointed Minister of Justice.
Chinese student Wei Wei was also the first Chinese person executed by Japan in ten years.
So what did Wei Wei do that was so outrageous that it was worthy of Japan breaking its convention and executing him?
Today we will take a look at Wei Wei’s life of drunkenness and dreaminess.
Youthful Spirit
Wei Wei was born in Henan in 1979. He came from a wealthy family. His parents ran a factory and made a lot of money.
Wei Wei's parents, who had no shortage of money in life, turned their attention to Wei Wei's education.
Therefore, Wei Wei's parents have been extremely strict with him since he was a child.
And Wei Wei lived up to expectations, with excellent academic performance in primary school and junior high school.
Unfortunately, everything changed when Wei Wei entered high school and entered his rebellious period.
Wei Wei no longer liked studying in high school, and was very playful and liked to fight.
Since then, his parents were very dissatisfied with Wei Wei, so they decided to send him to serve as a soldier to hone his character.
Wei Wei has been away for three years. After retiring from the army, he decided to study in Japan in order to better develop his career in the future.
After his parents learned about Wei Wei’s idea, they were very supportive and told him to study seriously in Japan.
Maybe he was going to a foreign country. Before leaving, Wei Wei once again came to a noodle shop where he was studying, wanting to taste the taste of his hometown before leaving.
"Xiao Wei, I'm going home to visit my relatives." The landlady at the door stopped Wei Wei, and she was very fond of this young man who had excelled in studies since childhood.
"Auntie, I am no longer a soldier. I have retired now and will go to Japan to study in a while." Wei Wei replied with a smile on his face.
After hearing this, the proprietress stepped forward, pulled Wei Wei and said happily: "Xiao Wei, come to the store and have a bowl of noodles. I'll treat you to this meal today. You are really promising. You must win glory for the country in the future."
After finishing the meal Wei Wei, who was eating noodles, never imagined that this would be the last time he would eat noodles from his hometown.
In 2001, Wei Wei said goodbye to his parents and came to Japan alone, where he started a new life at a university in Fukuoka City.
Wei Wei, who came to Japan, was unfamiliar with the place and the language, so his communication circle was only a small circle of Chinese international students, and he rarely interacted with Japanese people.
Over time, coupled with the historical knowledge he had learned since childhood and his experience as a soldier, he had no good impression of the Japanese.
In this environment, Wei Wei quickly degenerated and began to skip classes frequently. The school was accustomed to the depravity of international students, and after a few brief conversations, they stopped caring.
From then on, Wei Wei began to lead a more absurd life than in high school.
Learning is no longer something Wei Wei cares about, and his dream of serving the motherland has also been thrown into the corner.
Wei Wei became addicted to online games and Japanese bars. It was at this time that he met Wang Liang and Yang Ning, two good friends.
As for the remittances called by his parents, there was no remainder from his squandering. Such a "free" life soon ended with a phone call from his parents.
"Son, my family's factory has gone bankrupt and I still owe a huge sum of money. My parents are trying to pay it off as soon as possible. The monthly payment is less. If you can't make a living in Japan, do some part-time work.""
The mother's choking voice came from the phone. It could be seen that she had just finished crying.
After hanging up the phone, Wei Wei felt weak all over. He couldn't help but think about how he would live in the future without the support of his family in Japan, where he spent a lot of money?
When Wei Wei didn't know what to do, his friends Wang Liang and Yang Ning told him that he could find a "part-time job" where the three of them could make money quickly and work together.
What kind of "job" could make money quickly? And easy?
After discussion, several people agreed that the work of "robbing the rich and giving to the poor" is very promising. There is no doubt that the three of them are the ones who need help.
"Devils" are in the world.
January 10, 2003 Wei Wei and Wang. Liang and Yang Ning conspired together and decided to steal the international students who lived in the same dormitory. The three people gained a lot of money from this crime, and fell into troubles. However, in a few days. After that, the three of them were still not caught, so the three of them began to become more courageous.
They felt that they could develop this "part-time job" more brilliantly.
Then Yang Ning proposed to teach them a lesson together. When he was working part-time, Wei Wei and Wang Liang, who were loyal, agreed to Yang Ning's proposal without hesitation. On January 20 of the same year, the three of them committed the theft again and smashed it up at night. They jumped into the store and stole 2.3 million yen.
After gaining huge wealth, Wei Wei and others began to live in a dream all day long.
Having tasted the sweetness, Wei Wei and others got together again. After discussion, they felt that it was not too fast to make money from theft, and the "career" of robbery should be more promising. Robbery, because these people should be relatively wealthy.
On June 15, 2003, the three of them started waiting for a long time next to a store where street women often came and went. At five o'clock in the morning, a woman left the store. come out.
The three of them started to follow, but what they didn’t expect was that when the three of them followed into the narrow alley, they were surrounded by several big men who suddenly jumped out. The three of them were beaten up and took away all their money. Was also robbed.
It turns out that in some special KTVs and bars in Japan, there will be professional protection.
This blow made Wei Wei and Yang Ning have the idea of retreating. At the critical moment, Wang Liang stood up and encouraged the two of them, and the two regained their confidence.
Afterwards, in order to build up the confidence to rob, the three decided to pick a weak attacker. Soon, Shinjiro Matsumoto's family of four, who lived in the mansion, were exposed to the eyes of three "devils".
Shinjiro Matsumoto can be said to be successful at a young age. With his own efforts, he not only has a successful career, but also has a beautiful wife and lovely children.
But all this came to an end with the arrival of June 19, 2003. His career, wife, and children all turned into a ghost under Hakata Bay.
That night, Matsumoto’s wife Chika personally watched her husband drive to the company to work overtime. After closing the door and watching the two children playing around, a happy smile appeared on her face unconsciously.
"It's time to go to bed, children."
Qianjia said softly to her children.
After watching the two obedient children enter the house to rest, Chika dragged her tired body to wash up.
Little did she know that there were three pairs of eyes staring at her closely from the darkness. Qianjia was taking a bath in the bathroom, but Wei Wei and the other three who broke in pushed her into the water.
Even though she struggled hard, she could not resist the strength of three adult men, and she was drowned in the bathtub after a while.
Chika who drowned did not see the death of her children and husband, which may be the only tenderness in this cruelty.
The three people who killed Qianjia soon set their sights on the two children.
Two children live in bunk beds in the same bedroom. The elder brother lives in the lower bunk and the younger sister lives in the upper bunk.
My sister, who was trying to fall asleep, felt the bed shaking slightly, and heard a muffled sound coming from her brother on the bottom bunk.
At this time, her brother's hands and feet were tied up. Wang Liang and the other three took pillows and pressed them hard on her brother's face. After a while, there was no movement.
All this was seen by her sister. She didn't dare to make a sound, didn't dare to move, and didn't even dare to breathe, but the three "devils" still didn't let her go.
Wei Wei and the others dragged her out of bed, moved her to the living room, sealed her mouth with tape, bound her hands and feet, and hid them all. One of them, Wang Liang, hid behind the door with a wooden stick and a fierce look on his face.
"Click! Squeak!"
The door handle slowly turned, and the door slowly opened.
Shinjiro Matsumoto looked at the messy room and his daughter tied up in the living room. Before he could even take a step, Wang Liang's wooden stick hit him hard on the back of the head.
Shinjiro Matsumoto suffered a heavy blow and fainted on the spot. Wang Liang asked Wei Wei and the others to use a rope to strangle Shinjiro Matsumoto's daughter, while he himself strangled Matsumoto to death with a rope.
After killing an innocent family of four, Wei Wei and the other two searched the entire Matsumoto family before finding 37,000 yen.
37,000 yen is equivalent to RMB 2,300 !
For such a small amount of money, Wei Wei and the other two people lost all conscience and silenced a family of four. Such a cruel act is really outrageous.
After getting the money, the three people moved all the corpses to the living room, with dumbbells and handcuffs tied to each corpse.
then loaded all the bodies into the car and drove to Hakata Bay at Hakozaki Pier in Fukuoka City for burial.
The deceased rest in peace
The three people who thought they had solved the problem perfectly never expected that the bodies of the Matsumoto family would be discovered the next day. This cruel case attracted the attention of all Japan, and the three people panicked.
On June 24, 2003, Wang Liang and Yang Ning fled to China by plane. Wei Wei believed that the most dangerous place was the safest place and insisted on staying in Japan.
In August of the same year, Fukuoka police finally locked the identities of the suspects on Wei Wei and the other three through surveillance video and the purchase of handcuffs and dumbbells.
Wei Wei was quickly controlled in Japan.
At this time, Wang Liang and Yang Ning had fled to China, but with the handover between the Japanese police and the Chinese police, these two "devils" still could not escape legal sanctions.
Wang Liang, who was working at Liaoyang , was arrested and brought to justice in October 2004. Unable to bear the pressure, Wang Liang quickly revealed the location where Yang Ning was hiding.
On January 25, 2005, the Liaoyang Court tried the two men. Yang Ning was sentenced to death, and Wang Liang was sentenced to life imprisonment for meritorious prosecution.
However, Wei Wei’s case has been delayed again and again in Japan, and he finally received the punishment he deserved in 2019.
Those who died that year can finally rest in peace. May the devil stay away from the world in this life.
